The Blog of Henry David Thoreau: The Blog of HDT in June

6.01.2008

The Blog of HDT in June

Again, the summer's here

for "This is June, the month of grass and leaves."

and again, The Blog of HDT will not be updated daily.

Please click here for June's entries

and scroll to the appropriate day.

3 comments:

CaBaCuRl said...: My first visit to your blog, and so much to go back and read...luckily I have a grey rainy day ahead of me, and time to explore it.; Jun 3, 2008, 2:24:00 AM
Azri said...: Hi,
I am a new visitor of your site also.
A lot of information that you have post in your blog that i have never heard before. Great blog and post. Your post contain a very deep meaning and understanding of life.

Cheers,
Pet Treadmills; Jun 3, 2008, 11:13:00 AM
Anonymous said...: It is July now and has been for 3 days.

Please start reposting new Journal entries, thank you. Especially those that go beyond mere nature recordings.; Jul 3, 2008, 7:38:00 PM

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one of the native forces

“Thoreau was a surprising fellow—he is not easily grasped—is elusive: yet he is one of the native forces—stands for a fact, a movement, an upheaval: Thoreau belongs to America, to the transcendental, to the protesters: then he is an outdoor man: all outdoor men everything else being equal appeal to me. Thoreau was not so precious, tender, a personality as Emerson: but he was a force—he looms up bigger and bigger: his dying does not seem to have hurt him a bit: every year has added to his fame.”

~Walt Whitman as recorded by Horace Traubel

the simple print

The text is from The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Bradford Torrey and Francis Allen, 14 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906).

Each blog post is an excerpt from that day's entry in the Journal, and although not necessarily the complete entry, it is an integral and intact section thereof.

"It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.... One must submit abjectly to such a guide, and the reward was great." -Emerson